DFS consecration

DFS consecration
Type:	Glider in timber
Design country:	German Empire
Manufacturer:	German research institute for gliding
Production time:	1938-1955
Number of pieces:	about 300

The DFS Weihe was a glider that was designed in 1938 by Hans Jacobs of the German Research Institute for Glider Flight (DFS). The series production was industrial.

history

In 1938, Hans Jacobs designed the DFS Weihe with the idea of making a performance glider cheaper and easier to manufacture. The consecration should clearly surpass the Rhönadler - an earlier design by Jacobs for series production - and proved to be extremely successful. By 1945, Schweyer-Flugzeugbau in Mannheim and Jacobs-Schweyer Flugzeugbau in Darmstadt as well as under license in Spain, France, Yugoslavia and Sweden built around 300 pieces. After the war, Focke-Wulf continued to build the aircraft as Weihe 50.

Up until the 1950s, it was one of the leading aircraft types in international competitions. At the first post-war glider world championship in 1950 in Örebro / Sweden, 7 of the first 8 pilots flew a consecration, among them Paul MacCready , who took second place after the Swede Billi Nilson.

construction

The OH-WAB in the Aviation Museum of Central Finland

The consecration is a single-seater shoulder decker. In the original version it has a pure runner for landing. To start, a wheel is put under the runner, which falls off when you lift off. Later versions were also made with a main wheel. The profiles were taken over by the DFS Heron and it was the series performance aircraft ever before the war.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
Years of construction	1938-1945
constructor	Hans Jacobs
length	8.13 m
span	18 m
height	1.5 m
Wing area	18.20 m²
Wing extension	17.8
Wing profile	Gö 549 / Gö 676
Glide ratio	30 at 70 km / h
Slightest sinking	0.6 m / s at 60 km / h
Empty mass	195 kg
Max. Takeoff mass	355 kg
Top speed	210 km / h

Received aircraft

D-0084 airworthy
D-0700 airworthy
D-5862 DFS Weihe 50 German Gliding Museum
D-7080 airworthy in the association for the promotion of historical gliding
D-8239 airworthy, Karl Bauer from Waiblingen flew the world altitude record on the Teck in 1959, he cranked in a thunderstorm to 9665 m.
D-8866 airworthy
OH-WAB in the Aviation Museum of Central Finland

Trivia

Ernst Jachtmann flown to a consecration ( Mark : D-4-1841) from 22 to 24 September 1943 on Brüsterort on the Samland Coast / Baltic Sea in the ridge lift a standing world record of 55 hours, 52 minutes and 50 seconds.

literature

Peter Ocker: Hans Jacobs - pioneering life in aircraft construction . Self-published, Heidenheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039539-0 .

Web links

Commons : DFS Weihe - collection of images, videos and audio files

CV documentation of the consecration D-0700

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Consecration 50. D-8239. (No longer available online.) Fliegergruppe Wolf Hirth, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 29, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b consecration of the 50th Luftsportverein Südtondern, accessed on March 26, 2012 .
↑ Technical data on the website of the German Glider Museum, accessed on April 21, 2010
↑ [1] Vintage Glider Club Germany
↑ Airplanes. Association for the Promotion of Historic Gliding, accessed on December 6, 2015 : "Weihe 50, D-7080, ETSN Lechfeld, Stefan Donauer"
↑ http://www.vgc-deutschland.de/
^ Main Exhibition. (No longer available online.) In: airforcemuseum.fi. Central Finland Aviation Museum , archived from the original on November 12, 2012 ; accessed on July 17, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Der Adler , Volume V, 1943/1944 p. 87, Jahr-Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-921789-01-X ; German sailplanes, p. 10 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 4.4 MB); YouTube monthly show @1@ 2

[D-8239-1] Consecration 50. D-8239. (No longer available online.) Fliegergruppe Wolf Hirth, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 29, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2

[D-0084-2] consecration of the 50th Luftsportverein Südtondern, accessed on March 26, 2012 .

[3] Technical data on the website of the German Glider Museum, accessed on April 21, 2010

[4] [1] Vintage Glider Club Germany

[D-7080-5] Airplanes. Association for the Promotion of Historic Gliding, accessed on December 6, 2015 : "Weihe 50, D-7080, ETSN Lechfeld, Stefan Donauer"

[6] ttp://www.vgc-deutschland.de/

[OH-WAB-7] Main Exhibition. (No longer available online.) In: airforcemuseum.fi. Central Finland Aviation Museum , archived from the original on November 12, 2012 ; accessed on July 17, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[8] Der Adler , Volume V, 1943/1944 p. 87, Jahr-Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-921789-01-X ; German sailplanes, p. 10 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 4.4 MB); YouTube monthly show @1@ 2